Saturday, January 15, 2011

Kenya, the land of capitalists

I remember reading the 1979 accounts of the Iranian revolution, the book ‘No More Lies About Iran’ by Chief Musamaali Nangoli listed an intriguing tale of the Islamic Republic of Iran and how this country had survived until now the endless animosity from both the West and the East.
The 1979 Iranian revolutionary spiritual leader Rohullah al-Mosawi al-Khomeini

The book contains a message by the then Iranian revolutionary spiritual leader Rohullah al-Mosawi al-Khomeini. The speech in 1986, a few years after the revolution, addressed the plight of the Iranians and the Muslim world. A short part of it reads like this:

“…………….Despite the vast natural resources and fertile lands of the world, its waterways, seas and forests, the common people have been reduced to a state of poverty and helplessness, while the communists and money-hoarding capitalists develop friendly relations with imperialists and deny the people of their land, the right to live and the chance to take initiative into their own hands. By setting up monopolies and multi-national cooperation they in fact hold the economic pulse of the world in their hands and command all the channels of distribution, supply, demand, prices and even banking.

Through their fabricated notions and biased research they have managed to suggest to the disinherited masses the notion that they must either live under their influence or be doomed to abject poverty, that nature and human societies have determined that the majority should hunger for a morsel and starve to death while few perish from over-consumption, over-spending and over-indulging. At any rate this is the sort of calamity the imperialists have imposed on humanity…………………………………”
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Leave alone the French and the Russian revolution, the world has ever known one revolution, and that was the Great Iranian Revolution. Prior to 1979 on the 10th and 11th of December 1978, between 6 and 9 million took part in anti-Shah demonstrations. This was the largest protest the world has ever seen, in terms of percentage of population involved.
Kenya needs search revolution………

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Abdullahi Jamaa is a Kenyan freelance journalist with reporting experience especially from the devastated Horn of Africa region. You can contact him by emailing: abdullahijamac@yahoo.co.uk